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A complete guide to train travel in Southeast Asia

February 1, 2019 By James Clark 12 Comments

Travel by train in Southeast Asia

A complete guide to Southeast Asia train travel, featuring resources for buying tickets and reviews of rail travel in the region. An introduction to Southeast Asia Railways Travel by train is a great way to experience the landscapes of Southeast Asia, and to meet the people who live here. Personally I think train travel the […]

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Southeast Asia current and proposed railways [2017]

October 31, 2017 By James Clark 17 Comments

Current and proposed railways of Southeast Asia

Current and proposed railways of Southeast Asia – every line mapped In 2016 I compiled every current and proposed railway in Southeast Asia and created the Future Southeast Asia Railway Map, which depicted all current and proposed railways as a subway map. [Future Southeast Asia Railway Map – 2016 version (Click for larger image).] I’ve […]

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Future Southeast Asia – A map of proposed railways in Southeast Asia

October 24, 2016 By James Clark 31 Comments

What would Southeast Asia look like if it had a fully functioning railway network? I have thought about this many times, usually while on a bus ride from hell (Huay Xai to Luang Prabang springs to mind). I envision it to be a cross between China’s high-speed rail network and Europe’s international InterCity services. With […]

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Bagan Travel Guide

November 15, 2014 By James Clark

Bagan Travel Guide

Travel Notes > Myanmar > Bagan Travel Guide Book Bagan Accommodation Where to stay in Bagan While Bagan is often compared to Angkor Wat in terms of geographical size and the amount of temple ruins, there is no support town that is comparable to Siem Reap. When people refer to Bagan they refer to the […]

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Yangon Travel Notes

July 24, 2014 By James Clark Leave a Comment

Yangon Travel Guide

Travel Notes > Myanmar > Yangon Travel Notes Accommodation Yangon Hotels – Search and compare all Yangon hotel deals. Blogs Spitting Red, Seeing Gold: A Yangon Blog Blog Posts Shwedagon Pagoda – My visit to the main temple of Yangon. Bushwick is over. Time to move to Yangon – [Public Radio International] Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) […]

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Myanmar Travel Guide

June 28, 2014 By James Clark

Travel Notes > Myanmar Travel Guide Destination Guides Bagan Inle Lake Mandalay Yangon Accommodation Myanmar hotels – Search for discount hotels in Myanmar with lowest rates guaranteed. Travel Guides myanmartourism.org – Ministry of Hotels & Tourism. myanmar.travel – Myanmar Tourism Federation. Go-Myanmar.com – Comprehensive Myanmar (Burma) travel website. Travelfish Burma – A travel guide to […]

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Mandalay Travel Guide

March 23, 2012 By James Clark 5 Comments

Mandalay Travel Guide

Travel Notes > Myanmar > Mandalay Travel Guide Ahh Mandalay, surely one of the most evocative destination names in the world (up there with Zanzibar and Timbuktu). Rudyard Kipling may have had something to do with that with his poem (On the road to) Mandalay. For our generation, being in the middle of a land […]

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In Pictures: A day on Inle Lake – Myanmar

February 5, 2012 By James Clark 13 Comments

My trip to Myanmar (Burma) was already off to a flying start, with highlights such as the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon and cycling around the temples of Bagan. I had heard much of these places so I was prepared to be wowed (which I was). What I didn’t figure on was how much of a […]

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The temples of Bagan – Myanmar

January 5, 2012 By James Clark 11 Comments

The temples of Bagan – Myanmar

After visiting the incredible Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon I was wondering if anything could top that in Myanmar? It didn’t take long to find out, with my next stop at Bagan. [Temples on the Bagan Plain] Ancient Bagan Bagan is the site of a ruined city in central Myanmar that was a powerful capital nearly […]

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Shwedagon Pagoda – The cure for temple fatigue

December 19, 2011 By James Clark 13 Comments

Shwedagon Pagoda

[Shwedagon Pagoda (Paya), Yangon – Myanmar] Visitors to Europe would be familiar with the phenomenon of being cathedralled out. This is when you visit lots of cathedrals in a short space of time, to the point that you tire of even the grandest of cathedrals. The same happens with the temples of Asia. To be […]

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